Dr Rene Van Acker, Professor, Associate Dean External Relations OAC, University of Guelph, Canada

• expresses concerns that the right questions are not being asked in GM debate and that there is little evidence that GM is safe.
  CBC News Report on GM Safety and Containment (or lack of it). Time on video, 02:09

Jane Akre, investigative reporter

• talks about how Fox News killed a report on problems with Monsanto’s GM bovine growth hormone.
  Fox News Kills Monsanto Story.

Britt Bailey, Center For Ethics and Toxics, talks about

• how it is virtually impossible to keep a conventional crop from becoming GM-contaminated.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 05:35
• how we have lost control of the food supply to the large multinationals and going organic is the way regain our control.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 06:02

Larry Bain, Chef, San Francisco

• On why his restaurant boycotts GM food
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 52:45

David Baker, president, Community Against Pollution, Anniston, Alabama

• talks about Monsanto’s legacy of PCBs pollution and the subsequent health effects in his town.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 06:00

Hanny Van Beek, farmer and chair, Dutch Arable Farming Union

• talks of the need for Europe’s livestock farmers to end their reliance on cheap GM soy imported from Latin America.
  Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
• says European farmers cannot compete with cheap soya imports that are produced at the expense of the environment.
  Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. Time on video, 07:36

Prof Robert Bellé, National Centre for Scientific Research, Pierre and Marie Curie Institute, France

• talks about his findings that Roundup causes the type of cell division that leads to cancer – at doses well below those normally used – and how the findings were suppressed to protect the development of GMOs.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 15:26

Dr Charles M Benbrook, Former Director, Board of Agriculture, National Academy of Science

• talks about the takeover of the seed industry by giant chemical companies.
  The Future of Food. Time on video, 8:33

Dr Philip Bereano, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington

• talks to Dr Joseph Mercola about GMOs and his work with the AGRA Watch Project, which has as its objectives to monitor the Gates Foundation's participation in the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and challenge its emphasis on high-tech industrial agriculture, including GMOs.
  Dr Joseph Mercola interviews Dr Philip Bereano on GMOs.

Dr Pushpa M Bhargava, founder director, Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology

• states that the biotech companies are lying with their claims about GM crops.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 11.27
• talks about why animals who eat Bt cotton plants tend to die.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 19:58
• points out that the tests done on the safety of Bt brinjal are flawed.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 21:32

Mahesh Bhatt, filmmaker and social activist

• criticises multinational biotech companies and their links with regulatory bodies for unleashing what he calls bio-terrorism in India.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film

Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth

• talks about research findings that the monarch butterfly is killed by the pollen of Bt corn.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 09:10

Terry Boehm, Vice-President, National Farmers’ Union, Canada

• sees the corporate world as trying to appropriate wheat by patenting.
  The Dangers of Genetically Modified Wheat. Time on video, 07:49

Melanie Bondera, GMO-Free Hawaii

• talks of how GM papaya farmers in Hawaii have gone out of business
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 05:46

Jose Bove, Farmer Leader, France

• On why the US is aggressively trying to push Bt Cotton into Africa and why the economic problems of a country are not going to be resolved by GMOs.
  A Disaster in Search of Success – Bt Cotton in Global South. Time on video 42:01

Beth Burroughs, Executive Director, Edmonds Institute, talks about

• cases of GMO pollen pollution where innocent farmers have found themselves in violation of “Intellectual Property” laws.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 07:11
• how crops engineered for industrial processes or to contain pharmaceuticals may end up in our food supply.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 10:40

Richard Burroughs, veterinarian at the US FDA in charge of reviewing Monsanto’s data on its GM bovine growth hormone Posilac

• talks about how agency officials “suppressed and manipulated” data – and how he was fired for blowing the whistle.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 34:05

George H. Bush, then vice president of the United States, later president

• tells Monsanto men that with regard to GMOs, his government is “in the dereg[ulation] business”.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 27:11

Dr Elena Alvarez Buylla, National Ecology Institute of Mexico

• talks about GM contamination of Mexican maize.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:31:29

Dr Neil J Carman, Clean Air Program Director, Lone Star Chapter of Sierra Club

• tells us that consumers have the power to change things, as they vote on a daily basis through their buying choices.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 5, 01.03

Dr David Carpenter, MD, professor, Environmental Health and Toxicology Division, School of Public Health, University at Albany

• talks about the health effects of PCBs.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 11.07

Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Friends of the Earth, UK

• says factory farming does not benefit either people or the environment and that the way government supports agriculture needs to be overhauled.
  Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. Time on video, 08:36

 Dr Ignacio Chapela, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkley

• talks about his research findings that corn in Mexico, the crop’s genetic reservoir, has been contaminated by transgenic DNA from the USA.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:25:48
• on how genetic manipulation has no precedent in history or in evolution.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 06:15
• talks about his research findings of high levels of GMOs contamination in Mexican corn.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video, Time on Part 2, 03:11
• talks about GM corn that makes men sterile.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 10:54
• on the ecological risks of Bt trees
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 01.06

Dr Shiv Chopra, former scientist at Health Canada, talks about

• how regulators came under pressure from Monsanto to approve GM bovine growth hormone in spite of doubts about its safety.
  Fox News Kills Monsanto Story. Time on video 40:20 and 41:00
• the pressures he has faced to pass questionable drugs, such as Monsanto’s Bovine Growth Hormone.
  Fox News Kills Monsanto Story

Aziz Choudry, organizer, GATT Watchdog

• thinks that the privatisation of life for private profit that is being pursued by biotechnology companies is a radical economical, political and social agenda that runs counter to most right-thinking people.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 4, 05:37
• tells us that it is important to resist the introduction of GM Bt trees if we want a future for people on this planet.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 5, 00:35

Dr Eric Cleveland, UHH College of Agriculture

• talks of the long-term health risks of eating GMOs.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 06:15

Ken Cook, president, Environmental Working Group

• talks about Monsanto’s cover-up of its PCB pollution in Anniston, Alabama.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 08:52

 Claire Hope Cummings, journalist, environmental lawyer, and author

• talks about how we are facing the "perfect storm" of environmental problems
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 1: 04:45
• says that compared to indigenous traditions and holistic agricultural systems such as permaculture, GM technology is a limited way of looking at the world and its food needs
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 1: 05:50
• warns that because most of the world's agricultural seeds are now owned by just a few companies, they can control what we eat, how we eat and how our food is grown
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 2: 00:09
• says that most farming has become a giant chemical industry which creates green deserts dowsed in chemicals
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 2: 01:35
• talks about the political and historical backstory to the present malaise in agriculture
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 2: 02:30
• points out that we have industrial agriculture, and hence industrial food in our stores, as a result of a mechanistic, materialistic and limited view of life
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 3: 00:31
• on how GM was the first technology that severed our relationship with living beings
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 3: 02:30
• on her hopes and fears for the future of food and the environment
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 3: 00:19
• on how ancient cultures reinforce the relationship between man and nature and how our present culture destroys that relationship
  Claire Hope Cummings Speaks Out. Time on part 3: 02:33

Tanya Datta, reporter/journalist

• reports on how GM soya production has devastated the health and economy of peasant populations in Paraguay.
  Unreported World: Paraguay – Painful Harvest

Dr Patrick Dixon

• talks about the problems that governments create by focusing on biofuels. This focus will distort food markets and exacerbate a global food crisis.
  Dr Patrick Dixon: Biofuels scandal – fill your car, starve the world?

Steven Druker, lawyer and director, Alliance for Biointegrity

• talks about how the FDA ignored warnings from its own scientists when approving GMOs for marketing.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 46:26

Dr Samuel Epstein, head of the Cancer Prevention Coalition

• talks about the connection between Monsanto’s GM bovine growth hormone and cancer.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 36:07

Nancy Evans, Communications Consultant, The Breast Cancer Fund

• talks about how GMOs are “stealth” ingredients in cereals, health foods and infant formula and raises questions about health risks.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 00:07

Dr Stanley Ewen, former co-researcher with Arpad Pusztai on the GM potato study

• talks about the campaign to discredit him and how he lost his job.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 54:50

Grazia Francescato, President, Italian Green Party (Rome)

• about why the biotech industry resists proper labelling of GMO products
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 1:22
• say that the reason why genetically modified foods were created is to produce patents for life.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 34:23
• points out that when it comes to GMOs many scientists recommend the precautionary principle, as we still don't know their effects.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 35:30
• says that Monsanto's claim that we need GM foods to solve world hunger is wrong and that world hunger is mostly down failures in distribution.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 38:31
• says that labelling of GM foods is very important as it gives us the right to choose.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 40:08

Roberto Franco, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Paraguay

• talks about the illegal GM contamination of soy in his country, forcing it to adopt GMOs.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video. 1:40:40

Deborah Koons Garcia

• talks about her film, The Future of Food, which examines the consequences of changes to the food system (including GMOs).
  The Future of Food
• in an interview with Deborah Koons Garcia, the award winning creator of "The Future of Food," by Kurt Olson, host of the Educational Forum.
  Interview with Deborah Koons Garcia, Director of The Future of Food

Dan Glickman, former US secretary of agriculture talks about

• how the Clinton administration and the GM industry pressurized government officials to approve GMOs.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 19:00
• the US government’s stance of biotech and consumer choice.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 16:45

Aldo Gonzales, president of an indigenous people’s organization, Mexico

• talks about the deformed GM-contaminated maize now growing in Mexico.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:32:40

Diane Joy Goodman, Farm Box, Products Consulting

• asks why, if the biotech industry has such confidence in the safety of their products, they are so opposed to labelling.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 01.40

Mamadou Goita, Civil Society Activist, Mali

• Cotton Production in Mali has more than doubled in the last 10 years, without having to go down the GMO route
  A Disaster in Search of Success – Bt Cotton in Global South. Time on video 40:37

Prof Richard Gray, agricultural economist, University of Saskatchewan

• warns that the problem of segregating GM and non-GM wheat could lead many countries to reject all Canadian wheat, because of possible contamination.
  The Dangers of Genetically Modified Wheat. Time on video, 03:39

John Hagelin, PhD, Physicist, 2000 US Presidential Candidate

• states the that there is never been a single study on the human safety of genetically engineered products. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 00:16
• explains how genetically engineering allows us to take bits if DNA from insects, bacterium, viruses and even humans and incorporate them into our food crops. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 05:50
• explains how a Bt gene can be spliced into corn so that the corn can produce enough built-in pesticides to make it deadly toxic to insects, and that includes the Monarch Butterfly
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 07:37
• warns how the genetic engineering of Bt into corn will eventually result in the Bt resistance in pests and the eventual loss of this most effective natural pesticide.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 08:57
• states the that there is no human safety testing on Bt Corn or any other GE food, and that we as consumers are being used as guinea-pigs in this bio-tech nutritional experiment. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 10:20
• tells us that the FDA's own staff scientists warned of the unique health hazards of GE food, yet the FDA bureaucrats, who are political appointees ignored their own scientists and are rushed these foods to market. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 19:25
• says that gene pollution occurs much more easily than anyone ever suspected. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 26:39
• explains that the GE foods that have so far been produced includes soy, corn and canola oil, ingredients that make their way into the majority of the food that we eat. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 29:38
• tells us that the biotech industry are very concerned about labelling and they don't want people to know which foods are genetically engineered and which are not and that the FDA has become a mouthpiece for that industry. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 42:26

Michael Hansen, senior scientist at the Consumers Union of the United States

• talks about the non-scientific basis of the doctrine of substantial equivalence. 
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 25:30
• on former Monsanto attorney Michael Taylor’s role at FDA when the GMO policy was written. 
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 31:32

Peter Hardin, Editor and Publisher of the Milkweed

• on how dramatic physiological changes in cows, receiving GM bovine growth hormone, were revealed in studies submitted to the FDA by Monsanto.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 40:25

Simon Harris, Organic Consumers Association

• talks about how toxins exuded by Bt plants can persist in the soil for up to a year after the crop has been removed.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 08:40

Brad Hash, Native Forest Network board member, talks about

• how insecticidal Bt toxin is genetically engineered into trees, making the entire tree toxic to all insect life
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 1, 09:17
• how Bt toxin is exuded from GM tree and corn roots, transforming soil bacteria so that they become pesticide factories and polluting soil and water.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 03:02
• how trees are being genetically engineered for resistance to Roundup, allowing fruit trees to be sprayed with enormous quantities of the herbicide. Roundup has been scientifically proven to have toxic and lethal effects on wildlife/ecosystems and has been linked to ill health in humans.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 08:24
• evidence that glyphosate (Roundup) does not biodegrade quickly but can remain active in soils for over a year.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 1:09
• how trees are being genetically engineered to have low lignin, the substance that gives strength to trees.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 02:08
• the problems inherent in the industry ‘solution’ to the problem of GM contamination of native forests – Terminator technology.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 5:30

Margaret Haydon, Health Canada scientist

• testifies to a Senate Commission that Monsanto tried to bribe Health Canada officials to approve its GM bovine growth hormone in spite of safety concerns.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 40:25

Karen Heisler, US Environmental Protection Agency, Agricultural Initiative Program, talks about

• how the government decided that GMOs needed no special regulation.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 17:15
• how the EPA has no policy with regard to “drift” of GMO pollen to fields with conventional crops.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 06:50

Eric Hoffman, Friends of the Earth

• On the problems involved with genetically engineered salmon and other foods
  Problems involved with genetically engineered fish

John Hoffman, vice president of the American Soybean Association (part-funded by Monsanto)

• praises Roundup Ready soybeans.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 17.24

Cathy Holtslander, Saskatchewan Organic Directorate, Canada

• GRAIN interviews Cathy Holtslander about the fight against GM contamination of organic crops.
  Cathy Holtslander Talks About Fighting GM Contamination in Canada

Rick Howard, Professor of Biology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

• points out that GM fish are bound to pollute world fish stocks and that this contamination would be irreversible
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 39:40

Dr Don Huber, coordinator of the Emergent Diseases and Pathogens committee of the American Phytopathological Society

• wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure.
  Dr Don Huber warns of a new pathogen linked with Roundup Ready (GMO) corn

Makiko Irisawa, Environmental Activist

• talks about her discovery that important information had been removed from animal studies on GM foods when translated into Japanese.
  The Genetic Conspiracy. Time on Part 1, 04:21

Dr Brian John, GM-Free Cymru

• tells us that the European Commission (EC) is pandering to the commercial aspirations of the biotech corporations while putting the health of European citizens at risk from genetically modified (GM) products that have never been adequately assessed
  Dr Brian John petitions the European Parliament about GMOs. Time on video 4:39

Takar Kate, Indian agronomist

• talks about Monsanto’s virtual monopoly of the cotton seed market in India, leading to massive price hikes and farmer bankruptcies and suicides.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:18:00

Prof. Masaharu Kawata, molecular biologist, University of Nagoya

• talks about serious flaws in the safety studies for Monsanto’s GM soya that led to its approval by Japanese regulators.
  The Genetic Conspiracy. Time on part 1, 0

 Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director, Center for Food Safety,

• talks about patents on life.
  The Future of Food. Time on video, 6:06
• how GM foods have been put onto the market without the testing that FDA scientists wanted, because political appointees were convinced by biotech companies not do their job.
  The Genetic Conspiracy. Time on part 2, 02:40
• Says we have no right to fundamentally change the genetic integrity of living things
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 29:36
• Points out that GM technology will contaminate and eventually destroy natural species, whether it be crops, animal or fish
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 36:02
• on Terminator technology used in fish and other life forms
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 42:20
• talks about how GM technology is based on a mechanistic myth
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 43:28
• how consumers are complicit in the moral crisis in food production
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 57:45
• talks about the de-natured ethos in which genetic engineering and nanotechnology have developed
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 01:20
• on how corporate globalisation is a dysfunctional model which creates dysfunctional societies
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 05:10
• on how the present market-driven system exploits nature in an unsustainable way and how the long-term costs of the system are hidden
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 06:35
• on his fears that genetic engineering and nanotechnology will fail and create more problems
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 08:50
• on the biological, living pollution being created by GM technology, that is non-recallable
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 10:03
• on an estimate that GM salmon released into the seas could lead to the extinction of traditional salmon stocks within 40 generations
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 11:18
• on how the very web of life could be challenged by GM and nanotechnology
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 13:20
• on the roots and purposes of nanotechnology
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 13:50
• on how the corporate globalisation market model can be turned around
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 15:40
• talks about the concept of the “new American empire” and explains the present aggressive American foreign policy
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 17:30
• on how nuclear technology come from the same mindset as biotechnology and nanotechnology
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 19:28
• on how a new consciousness is arising to oppose these technologies, until they are proven safe
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 20:58
• on how we can oppose these emerging technologies by creating new ways of producing our food, such as organic agriculture
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 22:18
• on how we are starting to think about the consequences of technology to health and the environment and how people’s movements are rising up to say no to corporate globalisation
  Challenging Corporate Globalization – including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Time on video: 24:35

Rajesh Krishnan, Greenpeace, India

• states that despite an Indian government ban, GM corn is being imported into India and eaten by its people.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 23:09

Dennis Kucinich, US Democratic Party Congressman

• says GM foods have been put onto the market without the testing that FDA scientists wanted because political appointees were convinced by biotech companies not do their job.
  The Genetic Conspiracy. Time on part 2, 01.55
• believes that genetically engineered food has nothing to do with the ways of nature, is violent and raises ethical questions and questions of health and safety.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 14:57
• holds that because it changes our very food supply, it is most important to use the precautionary principle when it comes to genetically engineered foods.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 17:20
• says that it is unsatisfactory that corporations are allowed to police their own industry and are not required to divulge their own back-up research and data.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 20:00
• tells us that mistakes withing the GE industry that have allowed human food to be contaminated by genetically engineered animal food, have not slowed down the push for GE foods onto the market.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 22:55
• says that most American's are not aware that the food they eat may be genetially engineered and would not connect any health problems to the GE food they ate.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 33:33
• tells us that polls show that over 80% of Americans would want GE food labelled and because it is not labelled, they don't protest.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 41:46
• asks who protects the public interest when it comes the the genetic engineering of our food and concludes that neither the biotech industry nor our goverments are interested in this. Beceause of this the public must get involved.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 43:28
• believes that the consequences of genetically alterating our food supply could become one of the most powerful social, political and economic issues of our time.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 45:40

Renate Künast, Former German Minister for Consumer Protection

• says that the entire production process of GMOs, from the science, to the licensing, to sales and distribution, is a scandal.
  The Genetic Conspiracy. Time on part 3, 00:12

Kavitha Kuruganti, member secretary, Coalition for GM-free India

• sees GM as a classic case of Western interests wreaking havoc on the innocent.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 10:42

Toivi Lahti, organic farmer, Hawaii

• explains how the seeds in his organically grown papaya fruit tested positive for GM contamination and how this ruined his entire crop.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 00:26

Marc Lappé, Center for Ethics and Toxics, speaks about

• the origins of the Green Revolution.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 03:10
• how Nazi science was used to create organophosphates for the pesticide industry.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 05:13
• the inadequacies of the regulatory system for biotechnology.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 15:25
• the high mortality rate of monarch butterflies and many other insects that ingest Bt cotton pollen.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 09:25
• how “Vitamin A” rice (promoted by GM companies as Golden Rice) could be created by conventional breeding.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 17:09

Dr Peggie Lemaux, University of California, Berkeley

• admits that she cannot say that the benefits of genetic engineering outweigh the risks.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 0:50
• explains the principles of the genetic engineering of plants.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 4:39
• explains the genetic engineering procedures that allows the inserting of new genetic information into a plant.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 6:22
• tells us that the overuse of herbicides and insecticides can lead to them becoming useless and admits that this will eventually happen in the case of Bt corn.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 9:30
• claims that GMOs will provide enhancements in human and animal nutrition and provide plants are stress-tolerant and have higher yields.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 11:07
• promises tremendous benefits with from the bio-engineering of plants to produce industrial oils, fuels and plastics.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 12:46
• claims that genetically engineered foods are the most regulated foods we have ever eaten.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 15:39

Marc Loiselle, Canadian organic farmer

• Tells us about the lawsuit he has instituted due to contamination from GM canola
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 17:37

Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch

• On the problems involved with genetically engineered salmon and other foods
  Problems involved with genetically engineered fish

Miguel Lovera, head of SENAVE, Paraguay's food and agricultural service

• Currently the target of attacks for his agency's decision to destroy 44 hectares of illegally planted transgenic corn
  Head of Paraguay's food and agricultural service attacked for destroying illegally planted transgenic corn

James Maryanski, former head of the biotechnology department of the US FDA, talks about

• how the US government’s decision not to regulate GM foods was based on politics, not science. 
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 22:34
• Michael Taylor’s role at the FDA when its GMO policy was written. 
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 32:25
• FDA scientists’ warnings that GM was different from traditional breeding and that GMOs could not be assumed safe. 
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 48:10

Richard Matteis, Executive Vice President, California Seed Association, California Grain & Seed Association

• talks about why the seed industry is opposed to mandatory labelling of food products that contain GMOs.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 00:40

Jonathan Matthews, director of GM Watch

• talks about how Monsanto’s PR firm, Bivings, ran a dirty tricks campaign to discredit researchers’ findings of GM contamination of Mexican maize.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:35:50

Jason McKenny, Purisima Greens Farm

• talks about how a small-scale organic farm operates.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 06:45

Martina McGloughlin, Director, Biotechnology Program, University of California, Davis, talks about

• why fish genes were used to genetically modify tomatoes.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 14:25
• the difficulty of separating genetically engineered animal feed and human food.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 12:15
• the “technology within the seed” concept.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 15:10
• Golden Rice and other technological “fixes” for disease and poor nutrition.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 16:46

Joe McGonigle, Vice President, Aqua Bounty Farms

• Talks about developing and farming giant GM salmon
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 35:02
• Talks about developing sterile GM fish – the biotech “solution” to the dangers of cross-breeding with wild fish
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 41:34

Joseph Mendelson, Legal Director, Center for Food Safety

• tells us that there are no regulations of genetically engineered foods and any testing of such foods is by the biotech industry itself.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 16:03
• warns that genetically engineered organisms cannot be contained or recalled, that genetic pollution is inevitable and this has been allowed without regulation.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 24.32
• states that Europe refuses to by North American soya and corn and this is costing between 200 and 300 million dollars per year.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 28.15

 Anuradha Mittal, First Institute for Food and Development Policy, talks about

• the channelling of farm subsidies into big agribusiness companies.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 09:37
• the difficulties of protecting against genetic pollution.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 04:30
• how innovation in the fields has been ignored in favour of innovation within the labs.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 15:48
• how poverty is the underlying issue in malnutrition and disease and so there is no need for biotech “fixes” such as Golden Rice and vaccine-containing crops.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 18:27
• how family farming has almost become extinct.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 05:16
• why safe, nutritious food is a basic human right.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 15:45
• on the “greenwash” and “poorwash” PR and lies that the biotech industry uses to convince us that GM helps farmers, improves the environment and alleviates poverty
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 03:25
• on farmer suicides resulting from escalating costs of growing Bt cotton and from crop failures
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 06:04
• on how the government of Andhra Pradesh, India, has challenged Monsanto for grossly overcharging farmers who grow its Bt cotton
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 08:54
• states that a long-term study by Cornell University on the impact of Bt cotton found that farmers had to spray up to twenty times in a growing season
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 10.30
• on the paradox of “hunger amidst plenty” – we have enough food to feed the world but the real problem of hunger is poor distribution, poverty and lack of political will
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 12:35
• points out that, without our permission, GM products have crept into over 60% of the processed foods we eat
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 16:55
• points out that the transfer of genes from one species to another, such as animal or human genes into vegetables, can pose ethical, religious and health problems
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 17:25
• on how it is impossible to prevent cross-contamination of conventional crops with GM crops, once they are allowed to grow in our fields
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 18:50
• explains how studies have shown that Bt crops pose health risks to humans, to wildlife and to the environment
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 21:12
• points out that less than 1% of the USDA research budget on biotechnology is dedicated to risk assessment
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 22.44
• says that Monsanto is famous for intimidating and suing farmers for infringing its patents
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 23:42
• describes a study which has shown that after 9 years of GM crop growing, pesticide use has grown enormously in the USA
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 24:42
• talks about the complete abdication of responsibility by the US government when it comes to the regulation of GM
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 25:30
• on how we are repeatedly been told that GM is safe, yet no insurance company will offer policies to protect against problems arising from transgenic materials
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 26:35
• on how huge subsidies have had to be paid by the American taxpayer due to the loss of earnings of GM crop growers
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 27:28
• on how rejection of GM crops is growing around the world
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 28:30
• on how consumers are putting the “GM genie” back in the bottle
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 34:02
• on research into using human genes in GM pharmacrops
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 38:17
• advises on how to use consumer and voting power to change policies on GM
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 40:28
• on the grassroots opposition around the world to GM food
  The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution. Time on video: 41:50

Dr L Mohan, director, Dept of Animal Husbandry, AP, India

• tells us the reason he advises farmers to avoid Bt cotton.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 3, 00:30

Pat Mooney, executive director, ETC Group

• argues against the idea that just because US consumers have been eating GM foods for years, somehow this means it is safe.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 25:44

George Monbiot, journalist, broadcaster and writer

• talks about why GM contamination of conventional crops is not just possible but inevitable.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 02:48

Monica Moore, Pesticide Action Network

• explains how pest resistance evolves through use of Bt trees.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 00.00

Ralph Nader, Green Pary Activist

• says that we don't need large corporations who have no loyalty to any community or allegence to any country converting the genetic resources of the world into monopoly patents. 
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 39:12

Surendra Nath Naik, Minister of Agriculture, Orissa, India

• warns about the negative health effects from the use of farm chemicals on crops and how this can only become worse with the introduction of GM crops.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 4, 01:47

Dr. Ricardo Navarro, president of Friends of the Earth El Salvador (CESTA)

• discusses some of the impacts of biofuel production and policy on the global south.
  Dr Ricardo Navarro Discusses Impacts of Biofuels.

Nell Newman, Newman’s Own Organics

• talks about the “nightmare” caused to organic growers when trying to keep their products free from GM contamination.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 01:29

Getulio de Oliveira, Leader of Guarani Kaiowa people, El Dorado, Brazil

• explains how the poison from GM soya spraying is contaminating the water supply of indigenous people in Paraguay
  Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. Time on video, 02:09

Tomas Palau, Sociologist, Instituto Base IS, Paraguay

• talks about the displacement of indigenous people in Paraguay brought about by GM soya production, as well as health and environmental problems caused by chemicals used in growing the plants.
  Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. Time on video, 03:52

Dr Lorrin Pang, MD, MPH, Maui District Health Officer (speaking as a private citizen)

• talks of why GM is NOT the same as traditional plant breeding.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 06:38

Mike Papantonio, attorney

• talks about how Bayer knowingly sold an AIDS virus-contaminated blood product in Europe, Asia and Latin America, causing thousands of deaths.
  Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Blood Product Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia

Moe Parr, seed cleaning contractor, Indiana, USA

• Seed cleaning contractor from the US talks about his experiences with the big biotech company.
  Monsanto vs seed cleaner Moe Parr

 Raj Patel, economist and author

• talks about GM crops and globalized corporate agriculture, as well as the planet-wide democratic push for agroecology.
  Stuffed, Starved and Sprayed: Raj Patel on GM crops, Agroecology and Globalized Corporate Agriculture

Keith Pavo, organic farmer, Saskatchewan

• says that Canada is seen as a good source for pure organic wheat, and this status will be threatened with the introduction of GM wheat.
  The Dangers of Genetically Modified Wheat. Time on video, 07:29

Jeff Pera, Live Power Community Farm

• talks about how their Community Supportive Agriculture farm includes extensive community involvement.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 00:07

Ann Peterman, co-director, Global Justice Ecology Project

• describes the threat posed by GM trees to native forests and biodiversity.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 1, 07:30
• says Cornell University is genetically engineering apple trees containing Bt toxin and the fruits are not labelled in the US.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 04:39
• describes the GM tree plantation of the future: devoid of insects, other plant life, nuts, seeds, and fruits, and wildlife; fast-growing and invasive to non-GM forests; and creating deserts.
• A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 07:56

Mike Phillips, Executive Director for Food and Agriculture, Biotechnology Industry Organization

• claims that consumers have a choice between “enhanced” GM crops and organic.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 2, 00:57

Ian Pryme, PhD, University of Bergen

• talks about how Monsanto used a flawed study to establish the principle of substantial equivalence.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:04:50

Dr Arpad Pusztai, former scientist at the Rowett Institute, Scotland

• talks about his research on GM potatoes and the subsequent political fallout that led to his losing his job and being gagged.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 50:45
• discusses his research on the effects of feeding GMO potatoes to rats. He was sacked for telling the truth about his results to the general public. Effects of feeding GMO potatoes on rats

Dan Quayle, former vice president of the United States

• announces the new policy on GMOs, drafted as Monsanto wanted.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 29:11

Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, India

• explains why he opposes the introduction of GM foods in India.
  India's Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on GM Foods

H.H. Yogrishi Swami Ramdev, founder, Bharat Swabhiman Trust

• feels that we may end up having cancer patients in every household if we start eating GM foods.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 09:35
• is appalled by the idea of integrating pesticides and toxins into the food we are meant to eat.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 22:06
• calls for people to come together to stop GM food entering India.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 28:45

Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister, India

• explains why he has put an indefinite moratorium on GM Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine), saying more information is needed on health and environmental impacts.
  Jairam Ramesh Explains Government's Stand

Mullakkar Ratnakaram, Minister of Agriculture, Kerala, India

• is resisting attempts to turn parts of his state into experimental labs for GM crops.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 4, 04:37
• says that the Kerela government is trying to make organic farming one of its main policies.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 5, 00:26

H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankar, founder, Art of Living

• warns that until GM food is proved to be foolproof, any propagation of this technology is equivalent to an act of terrorism.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 09:10

Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group, Mexico

• talks about fighting GM contamination of Mexican maize (corn).
  Silvia Ribeiro Talks About Fighting GM Contamination in Mexico

Jeremiah Ridenour, CEO, Wildwood Natural Foods, talks about

• the dangers to human health and the environment posed by the toxin produced by Terminator genes in GM trees
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 06:00

Jeremy Rifkin, author and president, Foundation for Economic Trends

• talks about the deception involved in the doctrine of substantial equivalence – and how Monsanto attorney Michael Taylor went to work for the US FDA and oversaw the government’s new GM policy.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 26:01 and 30:11

Aruna Rodrigues, social activist

• states that the biotech companies are lying with their claims about GM crops.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 11.27

Peter Rosset, Co-Director, Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy

• on how pesticides were originally developed from nerve gas created by the defence industry.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 04:45
• on how genetic engineering uses an outdated Green Revolution approach to deal with hunger.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 00:28
• on how we should be outraged that these potentially dangerous products have been slipped into our food supply without our consent.
  Monsanto will own all seed. Time on video, 07:35
• explains how in short term built-in pesticides introduced into plants by GMO technology allows the reduced use of insecticides of crops, but insects develop resistance to built-in pesticides much more rapidly.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 08:30
• warns that if we have plants containing Bt insecticide, after the harvest they will decay in the soil and continue to release their toxins that will interfere with the micro-organisms that play a key role in keeping the soil fertile.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 09:51
• explains how, through producing propriety biotech seeds resistant to patent chemicals, the multinational chemical companies are battling for their share in the pesticide and herbicide market.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 13:29

Troy Roush, US farmer

• talks about how Monsanto’s gene police sued him for allegedly replanting their patented soybeans.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:09:50

Kiran Sakhari, Indian agronomist

• talks about how transgenic Bt cotton grown in the Warangal district of India was ravaged by disease.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:15:50

William Sanjour, former toxic waste expert with the US Environmental Protection Agency

• talks about the flawed Monsanto studies on the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnamese people and US Vietnam veterans.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:01:35

Prof Dwi Andreas Santosa, Molecular Geneticist, Indonisia

• Suggested an environmental impact assessment that was open to the public, before Bt Cotton it introduced in Indonesian, but the Indonesian government was deaf to his suggestion. He states that Bt Cotton has a very low biosafety rating in Indonesia.
  A Disaster in Search of Success – Bt Cotton in Global South. Time on video 32:05

 Percy Schmeiser, Canadian Family Farmer

• talks about how Monsanto sued him after pollen from a neighbouring GM crop pollinated his crops.
  Monsanto will own all seed. Time on video, 00:09
• explains that Monsanto took him to court as a test case to see how far patent law could be used to control farmers.
  A Silent Forest. Part 4, 02:29
• on why he stood up to Monsanto
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety.  Time on Part 1, 10:15
• Percy Schmeiser displayed enormous courage and tenacity in defending farmers rights by standing up to the Monsanto corporation when they charge him with illegally using its patented GMO canola seeds.
  Corporate power vs. the small farmer
• Monsanto accused Percy Schmeiser of patent infringement and demanded restitution for its seeds.
  GMO Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser
• tells us that some of the best varieties of canola and wheat have been designed by farmers rather than by research scientists.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 04:05
• on how farmers were told by Monsanto about larger crop yeilds, higher nutrition in the resulting crops and lower chemicals costs
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 07:19
• explains how Monsanto wants complete control over the seed supply to tie farmers into their product and their technology.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 14:13
• on how the price of canola has drop by a half due to contamination of normal canola with GE canola and Europe’s refusal to accept such contamination.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 28:38

Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini, president of CRIIGEN research group, France, talks about

• organ damage in rats fed on Monsanto’s GM maize (which had been approved for human and animal food).
  Prof Seralini Interviewed About Organ Damage Linked to GM Maize
• animal feeding studies by GM companies that have been shown to be meaningless and that should never have been accepted as evidence of GM food and feed safety by regulators.
  The Genetic Conspiracy
• the adverse impacts on the kidneys and liver of experimental rats in GM feeding trials.
  Prof. Seralini Interviewed about Organ Damage from GM Maize
• the fact that it is no longer scientifically valid to say that GMOs are safe.
  Press Conference on Risks of GMO Maize MON863. Time on video, 01:26

Robert Shapiro, former CEO of Monsanto

• explains that biotechnology is neither good nor bad, but just a tool. 
  Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide. Time on video1:57:28
• talks about biodiversity and transgenic contamination. 
  Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide. Time on video1:25:00

Devinder Sharma, food policy analyst talks about

• studies on mice that show GM food’s detrimental effects on health.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 08:12
• religious, moral and ethical implications in moving genes from one species into another.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 16:46
• India’s Genetic Engineering Approval Committee and states that it is nothing but a rubber stamp for the biotech industry.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 24:54

Dr Mira Shiva, medical doctor and public health activist

• speaks about her feedback to the public hearings on Bt Brinjal.
  Dr Mira Shiva on the health effects of GM foods.

 Dr Vandana Shiva, Indian farmer, activist, and founder of the farm NGO Navdanya,

• in a 3-part series of interviews with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the future of food.
  Vandana Shiva – The Future of Food
• talks about the patenting of seeds by Monsanto.
  The Patenting of Seeds by Monsanto
• on Monsanto’s aim to control the world’s food supply through GM and it's culpability in suicides of Indian cotton farmers.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 1:22:20
• on how the Green Revolution was used to force chemical agriculture into the Third World.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 03:47
• on how the principle of how substantial equivalence was “cooked up” to avoid regulation.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 1, 15:43
• on how world hunger is created by destroying people’s capacity to feed themselves.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 02:12
• on how the edifice of genetic engineering is built on a reductionist world order that sees genes as frozen, discrete units that have no relationship with their environment.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on part 3, 16:20
• talks about small cotton farmers in India who are being pulled into a ruinous situation by Monsanto’s agents.
  Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide. Time on video, 02:17
• talks about why GM and chemical agriculture threatens food security in India.
  Slow Food Nation The World Food Crisis
• on the threat to biodiversity and to small farmers by the patenting of crops and medicinal plants
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 10:15
• points out that GM crop failures and subsequent farm failures in India make no difference to companies like Monsanto as they have turned such failures into marketing successes
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 16:03
• On how the “extinction sentence” to age-old crops like amaranth is being created
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 23:33
• On the importance of protecting the diversity of crop varieties
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 54:47
• on how a war for the control of food is going on all around the world
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 02:32
• on how the mistakes of the “Green Revolution” are being repeated with the drive toward GM agriculture
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 05:01
• on the dangers of GM plants that create their own toxins
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 12:19
• on how Monsanto managed to “persuade” the Indian government to accept GM crops without any testing
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: on how the concept of “substantial equivalence” was used to avoid investigation and labelling of GM foods
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 16:07
• on how Indian farmers are persuaded to buy GM seeds and give up their old seeds, resulting in monoculture and “seed famine”
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 17:25
• on why huge US cotton production subsidies have led to US cotton flooding the Indian market, driving Indian cotton farmers into deep debt and often suicide
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 20:16
• on how the World Bank and the WTO undermined Indian food policies, allowing heavily subsidised US food to undercut locally grown food
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 23:20
• on agribusiness’s huge influence on creating WTO trade rules, such as the patenting of seeds
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 24:58
• on how the “revolving door” of personnel between agribusiness and the US government is used to shape WTO agreements
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 25:55
• on why, since the institutionalising of globalisation, hunger has grown in India and most people have become poorer
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 027:15
• explains how Indian food policies were manipulated so that indigenous oils were banned and imports of highly subsidised US soya oil increased dramatically
  The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels. Time on video: 30:27
• tells us that the "zero tolerance" approach of biotech to pests and diseases in plants, causes more problems in agriculture. She also believes that everything biotechnology promises can be supplied by native varieties of seeds that have been evolved over centuries
  Deconstructing Supper. Time on video: 5:05
• speaking at "The Globalization Conference" in Oslo. November 2010. She touches on Monsanto, bio-piracy, intellectual property, seed and life patenting, herbicide-resistant weeds, bt-cotton, bt-eggplant, biodiversity, the escalating cost for farmers, escalating farmer debt and suicides, the undermining of biodiversity, self-regulation and  biosafety. Monsanto or Farmers. Time on video: 5:05
• explains the work done at the organisation she founded in 1987 – Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm and Bija Vidyapeeth, the research and training arm. She reiterates that ecological farming is pro-peace, pro- biodiversity, pro-culture and pro-livelihood for the poor. Vandana Shiva on traditional knowledge, biodiversity and sustainable living.
• at the GMO-Free Europe Conference 2010, Vandana Shiva takes stock of resistance against the takeover of agriculture by the biotech industry. A great roundup of the GMO battle. GMO-Free Europe Conference 2010, Brussels, Vandana Shiva

Rajkumar Singh, farmer, Mehtawali, Bathinda, Punjab, India, talks about

• his experiences of growing Bt cotton over a 3-year period.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 2, 04:53
• the allergic reactions of farm workers to Bt cotton.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 2, 02:36

Hartej Singh, farmer, Punjab, India

• explains why he switched from growing GM crops to organic.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 4, 05:57

Yudhvir Singh, coordinator and member secretary, Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movement, India

• criticises the massive propaganda for Bt cotton over the last 5 years.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 3, 03:12
• thinks the Indian government is ignoring farmers and actively promoting biotech seed companies.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 5, 02:45

 Jeffrey Smith, author, talks about

• the deception involved in the doctrine of substantial equivalence.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 24:36 and 30:00
• the irresponsiblity of having GM products released into the environment where they can never be recalled.
  Monsanto will own all seed. Time on video, 09:08
• talks about the devastating health effects caused by l-tryptophan, a GM food supplement.
  Poison on the Platter – A documentary film. Time on video, 07:01
• presents shocking evidence on why gene-spliced crops may lead to health and environmental catastrophes.
  Everything You Have to Know about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
• the problems with GMOs, in a simple and comprehensive overview.
  Whats Wrong with GMOs
• the contents of his book, Seeds of Deception, in an informative but amusing way.
  The Health Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods and Their Cover Up
• on how to get involved in the resistance to the spread of GM technology
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. On Part 4 (throughout)

Gerson Smoger, lawyer representing Vietnam veterans

• talks about how Monsanto manipulated the data on Agent Orange.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video. 1:02:30

Steven Sprinkle, Certified Organic Farmer

• explains that bees travel for 1 mile in any direction from their hive and this will lead to GE contamination.
  Genetically Modified Food – Panacea Or Poison. Time on video 14:13

James Steel, investigative journalist

• talks about Monsanto's controversial corporate practices.
  How to Monopolize Food – Monsanto Style

Martin Stephan, Rainforest Action Network

• points out that there are many alternatives to tree pulp for making paper, meaning there is no need to genetically engineer weak trees for paper manufacture.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 04:08
• asks why GM-contaminated trees become the property of the biotech company that owns the patent on the contaminating gene.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 4, 04:26
• shows how consumer pressure on companies that use wood products can deprive growers of GM Bt trees of a market.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 5, 01:40

Dr David Suzuki, geneticist

• narrates a film about the threat posed by GM trees.
  A Silent Forest
• describes how Bt crops can cause allergies in humans.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 04:00
• talks about how GM papayas in Hawaii fell victim to blackspot fungus, forcing farmers to spray fungicides every 10 days.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 2, 05:19
• talks about the ill health effects of Roundup revealed in epidemiological studies, as well as the negative environmental impacts.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 00:20
• talks about how trees, at the behest of the paper industry, are being genetically engineered to have low lignin, the substance that gives strength to the tree. This weakens it and makes it susceptible to insect attack, leading to more pesticide use, and weather damage.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 01:27
• talks about the threat to native forests posed by GM pollen and by the industry ‘solution’ to this problem – Terminator technology.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 04:48
• asks why, if most of the current ideas within the field of biotechnology are inevitably going to turn out wrong and perhaps dangerously so, are we in such a rush to apply these ideas?
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 4, 08:56
• gives ways in which you can help stop GM trees from entering your community.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 5, 02:49

Venkat Swamy, farmer, Medipally, AP, India

• talks about the death of his cattle after they grazed on Bt cotton.
  So Shall You Reap. Time on part 3, 07:10

Laura Tarantino, Food and Drugs Administration

• explains the role of the FDA in food safety.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 16:24
• admits that genetically engineered corn intended for animals managed to get into the human food chain.
  Genetically Modified Food Issues – Educational Video. Time on video 22:11

Michael Taylor, former Monsanto attorney who oversaw the FDA’s biotech policy was drafted (some say he wrote it)

• talks about his role in setting up GMO regulation and why he thinks the current system needs reform.
  The World According to Monsanto. Time on video 30:11 and 46.17

Dr Christoph Then, Greenpeace

• says the present safety checks for GM maize are inadequate
  Press Conference on Risks of GMO Maize MON863. Time on video, 03:18

Kishore Tiwari, farm activist

• explains that the Indian government has abandoned farmers who get into trouble because of Bt cotton crop failure
  Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide. Time on video, 04:21

Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology and Author

• warns that we should not release the massive GM experiment on farmers and consumers throughout the world in the absence of the most basic knowledge about its effects.
  Monsanto will own all seed. Time on video, 03:07
• explains how the biotech industry misrepresents genetic science.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 1, 04:18
• points out the absurdity of making paper out of trees when there are many better materials – so there is no need to genetically engineer trees to make them weaker.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 03:30
• talks of a geneticist’s view that Terminator technology, because it is never 100% effective, could spread sterility throughout ecosystems and food crops, with catastrophic consequences.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 07:13
• talks of the 100-150 test plots of GM trees throughout the US.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 3, 09:44
• warns that the livelihood of indigenous people who depend on forests will be devastated by the introduction of GM trees.
  A Silent Forest. Time on Part 4, 08:08

Prof Terje Traavik, Institute of Gene Ecology, Norway

• points out that there is no experimental data to show what would happen to our genetic code if we ate GM fish
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 45:19
• talks about how he was converted from GM enthusiast to GM sceptic through his own research
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 49:59
• points out that 95% of all competent scientists studying GM are working for the biotech industry and only 5% are independent
  Jeffrey Smith's trilogy on GM food safety. Time on Part 1, 58:20

Dr Colin Tudge, biologist and writer talks about

• how the increasingly competitive nature of agribusiness, allied with a focus on short-term profit over sustainability, has proved a disaster for the land and the rural economy.
  
• how unpredictable weather caused by climate change, will mean that biodiversity is more essential than ever. Introducing GMOs will dangerously narrow the genetic base available to us.
  Colin Tudge: Feeding People is Easy unless we use GM seeds

Petrona Villasboa, a mother from Paraguay

• tells how her son, Silvino Talavera, died after being poisoned with toxic chemicals sprayed on GM soy.
  Killing Fields: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Steve Wilson, investigative reporter

• talks about how Fox News killed a report on problems with Monsanto’s GM bovine growth hormone.
  Fox News Kills Monsanto Story